Order, please. I have the honour to inform the House that a communication has been received as follows:
Rideau Hall
Ottawa
March 10, 2005
Mr. Speaker,
I have the honour to inform you that the honourable Ian Binnie, Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Canada, in his capacity as Deputy of the Governor General, signified royal assent by written declaration to the bill listed in the Schedule to this letter on the 10th day of March 2005, at 12.38 p.m.
Yours sincerely,
Curtis Barlow
Deputy Secretary, Policy, Program and Protocol
The schedule indicates the bill assented to was C-24, An Act to amend the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts (fiscal equalization payments to the provinces and funding to the territories), Chapter 7.